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October 1, 2011
CAC Cottonwood: autumn, winter, spring, summer. CAC archives.
To Everything a Season:
A time to love and a time to hate-
Feast of Therese of Lisieux, "The Little Flower"
It is God within us who loves God. By ourselves, we do not know how or where to look for God. We don’t even know what God looks like. We don’t know what to think or if we should try to think at all.
God planted a little bit of God inside of us—we call it the indwelling Holy Spirit (John 14:16-17), and from that place within us, like a homing device, God seeks and loves God—through us, toward us, within us, and from us. All we can do is allow this Spring inside us to well up (John 4:14) and flow through us. Go to this holy place within you. It is the only place big enough to allow you to encounter, hold, and bear the darkness that is a part of every life.
Among the many wise and lovely things that Therese taught us, she summed it up when she said, “It all comes down to confidence and gratitude!” She called it her “Little Way.” Therese has now been proclaimed a “Doctor of the Church” and was largely an uneducated French girl who died at the age of 24!
From On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men, p. 357
Starter Prayer:
Teach me the wisdom of the seasons.
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